My band spent last weekend and part of the week with
me. They are three great musicians and
three great guys. We played music each
night and ended up talking late into the night about all kinds of stuff
including the Austin Music Scene in its hay day. Combined my band guys probably have about 120
years of Austin music scene experience between them. They have played with some greats and have
known nearly every name in Austin music that was anyone over the past 40 years.
The new marijuana scene in Colorado fascinated them. We went to the dispensary up in Bailey and
they asked questions and visited for over an hour with the owner. I think they just can’t believe how times
have changed. This is very real for them
because they saw so many of their musician friends put in jail for 3, 4 years
for possessing a single joint back in the 70’s. Back then the Texas State
Police would arrest you for having almost no pot at all and sentence a person
to the Texas Penitentiary, basically ruin their life for what? Something that
is perfectly legal in several states now.
Amazing.
Yesterday's demon weed is tomorrow's recreation. How many things in life are regulated out of fear. Ironically it was not the demon weed that ruined people's lives back then, but the regulators.
